How to Pit Cherries + 7 Spring Cherry Recipes

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Spring is cherry season! Check out the health benefits of cherries along with how to pit cherries and some recipes to take advantage of this spring’s cherry bounty.

How to Pit Cherries

If you’re planning to cook with your sweet cherries, you may need to remove the pits. This can be a total pain, but I found a cool trick that makes it easier. You don’t need a cherry pitter to pit cherries quickly and easily. All that you need are a bottle with a narrow mouth and a chopstick or kitchen skewer. Here’s what you do:

Remove the cherry’s stem and place it on top of the bottle.

Use the chopstick to push the pit out of the cherry.

That’s it! You can even do this without the bottle, but it’s messier. You can see this technique in action in the video above.

Another small study showed that cherries may help manage blood cholesterol.

Like many other fruits, cherries are a good source of fiber and vitamins. Some of the research above needs further study, but what you don’t need is a study to show is that cherries are delicious. That means the worst case scenario is that you get a delicious, whole food, healthy snack.

7 Sweet Cherry Recipes

Of course you can eat your sweet cherries by the handful, but sometimes it’s fun to mix things up! Here are some fun recipes to help you incorporate healthy cherries into your snacks and meals. Some of the recipes below call for tart cherries, but sweet cherries will work just as well.

1. Sweet and Spicy Trail Mix - Nuts, a little candied ginger, and dried cherries make a yummy on-the-go treat. This recipe includes a free printable card, in case you want to give a batch of trail mix as a gift.

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Becky Striepe is a freelance writer and vegan crafter living in Atlanta, Georgia. Her life’s mission is to make green crafting and vegan food accessible to everyone!
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Gr8 advise. If I get the hankerin' for a home made cherry pie, this will work. usually though, I love fresh cherries. All I do is pop one in my mouth and spit out the pit. Let's have a Cherry pit-spittin' contest to see who can spit the furthest!